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For Kiyomov Javodkhon, an Uzbek native who has lived and worked in China for nine years, Huzhou feels both familiar and unknown. 

Recently, Javodkhon visited Yigao village in Zhili town, Wuxing district, where he uncovered the ecological wisdom embedded in the ancient Lougang irrigation system, a practice that has sustained the region for centuries.